"Stop pretending:" Governments urged to come clean on early coal closures
With more coal plants set to close early, the clean energy sector has called on governments to accept the reality of the end of coal.
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With more coal plants set to close early, the clean energy sector has called on governments to accept the reality of the end of coal.
Instead of waiting for market failures, government agencies should be shaping markets, and creating an environmental objective for the NEM is top of the list.
Cross-party backing for a new fossil fuel power plant in Australia has been criticised by experts and clean energy industry voices, who have said battery storage would be a more viable option to provide peaking capacity.
The draft 2022 Integrated System Plan provides a dramatic break between the National Electricity Market as it used to be, and the NEM as it's going to be.
Once a Coal Generating Behemoth, TransAlta Achieves Full Phaseout of Coal Power in Canada. Canadian generator TransAlta, a company that derived 30% of its cash flow from coal generation just five years ago